The CyNick
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- Sep 17, 2009
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I suggest you watch Tavares press conference on the day he signed and how he praised Dubas in their meetings that made him choose Toronto.
Never mentions Dubas by name. Heavy praise for Babs though and specifically talked about how "tremendous Mike was in the meeting".
He talks about the opportunity to play with a young core, longer window to win, great relationship with Babs and they won couple times before, talks a lot about timing, and mentions several times about the lure of playing for Toronto, his boyhood team.
Not once did he say Dubas was magical in the presentation. Dubas himself said they just laid out the players he would be playing with, and as JT himself said, it appears Babs was the one talking for most of that part of the presentation.
If anything you have convinced me that Babs was even a far greater factor in signing JT than I remembered. So thank you for pointing that out. Look forward to reading it in my future posts. I will ensure to give you credit.